Ukraine 9 клас Ukrainian Literature

1. Introduction

Content and form in art

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2. Early modernism

Modernism as a style of the era · Neoromantic and symbolist lyric · Impressionist prose · Dramatic poem · Neoclassicism

• Impressionism – Impressionism was an art movement that began in France in the 1860s–1870s. Painters such as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt painted outdoors, quickly, to catch the changing effects of light and the atmosphere of one moment. They used bright, pure colours placed side by side in visible brushstrokes, coloured shadows and scenes of modern everyday life. Their first group show in Paris in 1874 was mocked by critics, who took the name from Monet's painting 'Impression, Sunrise'. Impressionism opened the way to Post-Impressionism (Seurat, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin) and modern art, and the word was also used for music (Debussy) and literature.
• Drama: Elements, Stagecraft and Performance – Drama is a story told by actors who become characters and act it out in front of an audience. Every drama has characters who want something, a conflict when those wants clash, a plot that builds tension to a climax and then resolves, dialogue, a setting and a theme. On stage, actors use voice and body, and the production adds lighting, set, costume and sound.
• Neoclassicism: Art That Went Back to Greece and Rome – Neoclassicism (about 1750–1830) was a style in art, buildings and writing that copied the calm order of ancient Greece and Rome. It began after Pompeii was dug up and grew with the Enlightenment's love of reason. It used straight lines, balance, sharp outlines, white marble and serious stories of duty, as a reaction against the playful Rococo. Key names: Jacques-Louis David, Ingres, Angelica Kauffman, Canova. Its ideas came back in the 1920s 'return to order' and metaphysical painting.

3. Late modernism

Adventure novel · Song lyric and the Sixtiers · Psychological prose about childhood

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4. Crimean Tatar literature

Crimea and its literature

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5. Panorama of contemporary poetry

Contemporary poetry

• Postmodernism in Literature – Postmodernism is a style and attitude in art and writing from the second half of the 20th century. It doubts big, neat stories and single truths. Typical features: broken or jumbled plots, irony and play, texts that refer to other texts (intertextuality) or to themselves, mixing of serious and popular culture, many narrators, and the absurd. The reader helps to build the meaning.

6. Contemporary youth prose

Genres of modern youth prose

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7. Local literature, new books, review

Reading beyond the core list

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